Fantasy Football - Footballguys Forums
This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!
Ran a 10k - Official Thread (7 Viewers)
- Thread starter Ned
- Start date
Zasada
Footballguy
I like 165lbs. Even at that weight, the Bod Pod measures me at 15% body fat
. I'm genetically a scrawny geek. I was very active in University with tennis and hockey, but still a scrawny geek. So if I could trade some of that 25lbs of fat for muscle, and stay at 165 total, I'd be thrilled.The plan for this year was to start weights and do pushups to build some mass/strength. Totally abandoned when I moved to DFW (and left my weights in Calgary). This morning I was thinking about how I can resurrect that.
ChiefD
Footballguy
JAA
Footballguy
I’m sure peloton has amazing calibration. I’ve rode them before, but they don’t have a calibration that I’m aware of. For example my wahoo recommends calibration before every ride. Also says to do a 10 min warmup before hand.
All that said, power is not for comparing to other people, power is for measuring against your own baseline.
This is what power is for: https://www.google.com/amp/s/blog.wahoofitness.com/by-the-numbers-power/amp/
JAA
Footballguy
JAA
Footballguy
gruecd
Footballguy
El Floppo
Footballguy
El Floppo
Footballguy
But yeah- I've always been a get up and go runner too...at least as an adult.
My poops are usually first thing or in the afternoon, and I haven't been bothered by the chiefd express for years. But I've been running after breakfast and coffee lately...and that train is a-rumbling on down the tracks.
Today on my run I kept hearing this noise that sounded like roadwork or grading machinery. Kept looking around, but nothing. Then I started to feel the baby breach and realized the sound had been coming from inside my body.
Need to get back into waking up before everybody else and hitting the road.
My poops are usually first thing or in the afternoon, and I haven't been bothered by the chiefd express for years. But I've been running after breakfast and coffee lately...and that train is a-rumbling on down the tracks.
Today on my run I kept hearing this noise that sounded like roadwork or grading machinery. Kept looking around, but nothing. Then I started to feel the baby breach and realized the sound had been coming from inside my body.
Need to get back into waking up before everybody else and hitting the road.
JAA
Footballguy
My point of my food posts is that if I didnt workout I would most likely be twice the size I am now. I love to eat, I love to drink, and I do not have an athletic figure (short arms, short legs, broad chest). Here is what I have learned about myself:
I love to eat. More over, the act of eating. Food in my mouth and chewing. Then looking at the next bite and wanting more. Im convinced its in my genes. It makes me happy and I no longer fight it. I often think about what Im going to eat when I get home from a workout. It makes me content knowing I have that reward.
Now that I know its not the type of food thats important, I have subbed in mostly filler. Get my stomach completely full with more or less fiber. Yes, a #### ton of fiber. That meal there, the entire plate-filler is as follows:
I read a blog once about trying to trim down for events. There was a quote along the lines of "wear your hunger as a badge of honor". This meal will get me till about 4pm where I will have a Diet Coke. The caffeine will suppress enough hunger till dinner.
Now, I will load more calories if I have a long session the next day, but the burning usually lines up with the meal calories.
* - Im currently allowing myself 1 meat meal a week. I've found the calories from fat (see oil) are hard to overcome just from a quantity standpoint. I think the meat reduction has allowed me to eat a whole lot more food without the caloric uptick
One other items I think I have learned. Dont think about colories as a daily number, think about them as a weekly number. If you are great 5 outta 7 days, those 2 days can ruin your progress. I try to limit myself to gluttoness 1 afternoon a week. Sat night being drinking and typical meat meal. Even now though, those sessions hurt the next day (see my post last week
)
I love to eat. More over, the act of eating. Food in my mouth and chewing. Then looking at the next bite and wanting more. Im convinced its in my genes. It makes me happy and I no longer fight it. I often think about what Im going to eat when I get home from a workout. It makes me content knowing I have that reward.
Now that I know its not the type of food thats important, I have subbed in mostly filler. Get my stomach completely full with more or less fiber. Yes, a #### ton of fiber. That meal there, the entire plate-filler is as follows:
- 1/4c red beans - 66
- 1/4c lima beans - 54
- 1/2c brown rice - 108
- 1/2 small onion - 22
- 2 celerey stalks - 20
- 1c shredded carrot 45
- 1 egg - 78
- 1 tbsp canola oil - 120
I read a blog once about trying to trim down for events. There was a quote along the lines of "wear your hunger as a badge of honor". This meal will get me till about 4pm where I will have a Diet Coke. The caffeine will suppress enough hunger till dinner.
Now, I will load more calories if I have a long session the next day, but the burning usually lines up with the meal calories.
* - Im currently allowing myself 1 meat meal a week. I've found the calories from fat (see oil) are hard to overcome just from a quantity standpoint. I think the meat reduction has allowed me to eat a whole lot more food without the caloric uptick
One other items I think I have learned. Dont think about colories as a daily number, think about them as a weekly number. If you are great 5 outta 7 days, those 2 days can ruin your progress. I try to limit myself to gluttoness 1 afternoon a week. Sat night being drinking and typical meat meal. Even now though, those sessions hurt the next day (see my post last week
) 
MAC_32
Footballguy
They may mean it differently, but I really only eat one 'meal' per day too. I just graze all day though. Not sure if they do - or not. I've had better success with weight control since I went to one meal. If I'm in a high volume exercise period then I naturally eat a little more amidst my grazing. If I'm going through a recovery day or three I eat less during the day. This is still relatively new though. Didn't really flip the switch to this until about a year ago.
JShare87
Footballguy
Brony
Footballguy
If I really want, I can control my eating and drinking to drop or maintain weight. But, man, it is nowhere near as fun as not counting calories every meal.
Zasada
Footballguy
Nope, no grazing. The downside of one huge meal a day is that once I start eating, it's like flipping a switch. "IT'S EATING TIME", my body says, and I just start consuming everything.
Sunday was like that. After eating well all week, I decided to have some chips and salsa around noon while I had a virtual date with my wife (and no, I don't even get lucky virtually, let alone in-person).
By four o'clock, I had consumed that 1lb bag of chips (+salsa), a half a pan of brownies, a couple PB sandwiches, a couple toaster pastries, a few handfuls of roasted peanuts, and a bag of goldfish crackers.
Thus, I try to just not eat at all until dinner time. Work days are easy, weekends are hard.
Last edited by a moderator:
El Floppo
Footballguy
Alex P Keaton
Footballguy
Are you sure there is cake? I heard we had to choose between cake, ice cream, pie or pastry.
gianmarco
Footballguy
Alex P Keaton
Footballguy
Oh yeah, forgot the cookies. My bad. I’m having 2 of the 5 today (pastry/donut + ice cream). Might have a piece of pie just for fun.
gruecd
Footballguy
SteelCurtain
Footballguy
beer 30
Footballguy
It was a long time ago when I signed up, time were different. It used to be hookers & blow, we've had to drop the standard some.
El Floppo
Footballguy
SFBayDuck
Footballguy
6 1/2 miles today, thanks to starting an Every Single Street project here in my town. If I'm going to be stuck running roads for awhile, I wanted to have something to distract me from the monotony. Found an app that links to Strava that shows the roads you've run on and those you've missed, so I look like a fat and slow @MAC_32 running around with my phone in my hand.
But man the Strava phone apps sucks! It had me flying over 2 streets of houses in a straight line at one point, and it totally missed a few little Courts I ran down and back up so now I have to repeat those. My watchband delivery is now delayed, but I think I'm just going to carry it in my pocket and use it instead. Also, my town has an annoying number of dead end private streets.
SFBayDuck
Footballguy
Brony
Footballguy
The Iguana
Footballguy
gruecd said:
I've been semi-steadily losing weight the last 18-24 months and it's kind of a result of going the other way - eating more often but smaller amounts. I love to eat way too much to think about only getting to do it once a day! Like the process of eating, the tasting of the food, everything about it!
Alex P Keaton
Footballguy
I operate in a no-judgment zone at all timesbeer 30 said:
tri-man 47
Footballguy
Don't make us relegate you back to the Otis thread, mister.Alex P Keaton said:
tri-man 47
Footballguy
Dang for you too! So you're saying you used to be JDidntShare87?JShare87 said:
Dr_Zaius
Footballguy
Apropos of nothing, I finally figured out that your profile picture was an iguana with the edges cropped. All this time I'd been seeing it as a green baby/fetus grabbing the roof of a house
I've been semi-steadily losing weight the last 18-24 months and it's kind of a result of going the other way - eating more often but smaller amounts. I love to eat way too much to think about only getting to do it once a day! Like the process of eating, the tasting of the food, everything about it!
I thought it might be from a cheesy horror movie or something.
SFBayDuck
Footballguy
Well not now, my fitness has slipped too much. But you guys thought I ran 100 miles? That'd be insane!
SteelCurtain
Footballguy
@tri-man 47 and @MAC_32 - don't know what you guys are seeing and hearing but I think our "industry" will be forever changed by COVID-19. Its ugly everywhere in the northeast. Hope its better where you guys are at.
SFBayDuck
Footballguy
Yup, hitting all these damned Courts off of Center Rd near my house to get started. I’ll get over to Hamilton by the Coast Guard hangar soon enough.If I see a guy running with his phone in his hand then I’ll assume it’s you and throw change at you. You’re still in Novato right? Or I’ll hit you with my bike as I ride by
If you see me, heckle me.
CGRdrJoe
Footballguy
gianmarco
Footballguy
Zasada
Footballguy
I'd show you the secret handshake, but for the Outside Poopers Club ("OPC"), it's not exactly sanitary. So our secret handshake is that we don't have a secret handshake.
Zasada
Footballguy
347.5km (215.9mi) this month, a new monthly high.
But only 891m of elevation. Truly a new low, even including the very first month I started hiking three years ago. That monthly elevation is less than my average Saturday in Calgary.
Hopefully I can travel again soon. While the running training is great, losing my mountain legs is going to do nothing for my hopes of running a 50-miler or 100K later this year...
But only 891m of elevation. Truly a new low, even including the very first month I started hiking three years ago. That monthly elevation is less than my average Saturday in Calgary.
Hopefully I can travel again soon. While the running training is great, losing my mountain legs is going to do nothing for my hopes of running a 50-miler or 100K later this year...
Juxtatarot
Footballguy
217 miles for me in April. That's the lowest monthly total for me this year but I think that's fine.
xulf
Footballguy
While I appreciate the literalness of your formatting change, the elegance of the original work is the depth that was reached. I was really trying to squeeze out the double meanings. I really wanted the reader to be able to interpret the writing in the way that best matches how they are feeling at that moment, and not just dump or force a narrative on them. I wanted it to flow without restrictions.
That's all I have for now. I'm wiped.
bushdocda
Footballguy
Got more in April than in March which was my goal. I have either a mental or physical block around 35-40 miles a week I need to bust through. I get in my head around there mileage wise and then overthink the aches. This year with less race goals has to become about me getting mileage up and staying there.
Good news is I’m feeling healthy and pissed I didn’t head out early today as it gonna storm all day. So I’ll ride da bike. And yes, this is exactly how I don’t get mileage up.
Good news is I’m feeling healthy and pissed I didn’t head out early today as it gonna storm all day. So I’ll ride da bike. And yes, this is exactly how I don’t get mileage up.
Last edited by a moderator:
